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The Report Template Builder

The Report Template Builder is a versatile and customizable tool for creating and running reports on data models and business process models. The Report Template Builder enables you to reuse and edit your report templates and maintain objects for related report types. You can create text-based and graphical reports, output the results in HTML, RTF, PDF, and TEXT formats for easy publication and distribution, and run a predefined report against any model. The features in the report template properties dialogs lets you specify the content and formatting of the text elements in your report such as the report title, table of contents, index, header, footer, fonts, and colors.

Use the Report Template Builder in any of the following ways:

Open one of the sample report templates and edit it to match your specific reporting requirements.
Create a customized report to include information about logical, physical, and graphical objects, and then reuse it as a report template.
Create a report consisting of pictures of models and submodels using the picture report features.
Customize the report output by specifying styles for the title, header, footer, table of contents, and other report elements.

When you want to run a report, you run a report template against the model that is currently open. Your report output is displayed in the format you select, using the registered tool, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer for HTML format, Microsoft Word for RTF format, Adobe Acrobat for PDF format, and Microsoft Excel for CSV format, for easy printing and distribution.